A YEAR OF LIFE IN THE 'NAM


Long Binh Post was situated East of Bien Hoa and approximately 20 miles northeast of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City.)
The base was host to US Army Headquarters. Today, in peacetime, the property serves as an industrial park.

I was there from December 22, 1970 to December 30, 1971 serving with the 95th Military Police Battalion.

On December 1, 1969 at 8:13 P.M. EST my birthday was randomly drawn as Number 36 for the draft in the first National Lottery since 1942.
I was a senior in college, sane, and extremely healthy. In a word, I was dead red-meat. Grade 1-A.

I worked only one day as an MP--Christmas Day, 1970--guarding the Bob Hope show. Otherwise, I worked at Battalion Headquarters in the Personnel Department.
The last six months, though, I worked as the Battalion drug counselor which was an eye-opening experience.

It was generally quiet on post, but occasionally we got rocketed.
As for those fool hearty souls who attacked the perimeter, the Cobras would erase them out of existence with their minigun, red-pencil line of bullets.

Mainly, it was REALLY BORING there. And VERY HOT. One August day it touched 120 F with 99.999999999% humidity.

Thank God for Sunday passes to Saigon!






I Gotta Get Out Of This Place
If It's The Last Thing I Ever Do

Fresh Meat For Tonight's Dinner
Killing Time--Not Cong

Generals' Quarters
Privates' Quarters

Don't Ask
Don't Tell
Priming the Government Issued
M-83B Mimeograph, Air Cooled, Table Operated, One Type Each

Tet
A Visual Metaphor Of Fighting The Vietnam War



A Saigon Marketplace
Saigon Central Park

Saigon City Hall (Hotel de Ville)
A Saigon Shower

Vietnamese Legislature, Saigon
US Embassy, Saigon

Newport (North Saigon) On The Saigon River
Up For A Sunday Drive



The 95th MP Battalion Visits Thien My Orphanage
B-52 Candy Delivery

Mama Sans' Kids
Too Hot To Play

Friends



Gangsta' Sans
Burning S__t Smells Better Than Nuoc Mam Anyday



Shell Mountain
R.I.P.'d

Perimeters
Tanks For Future Wars

Got Geico?
Thumbing A Lift To Saigon From Long Binh's Hwy 1A Main Gate 2

King's Pawn To Bishop Three
Attention! No Butt Shall Come Into Proximate Contiguity With The Earth's Surface



Spit Shine Assembly Line
Every Day Is Wash Day For Mama Sans

Your Basic Betel Nut Babe

I Like That One

The Classic Vietnamese 'Ao Dai'
(Pronounced 'Ow Zai')




Curry Amphitheater At Long Binh
A Panorama
Bob Hope Christmas Show Venue 1968-1972

Arriving Fashionably Early For Next Year's Bob Hope Christmas Show




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